Pokrosk is starting to look like a lot like Bakhmut.
The cauldron is boiling.
After months of fighting, the Donetsk bastion of Pokrovsky has been encircled and put in a ‘Cauldron’, and the final Stages of the Battle for Krasnoarmeysk (Russian name) is ongoing.
And, unless the Ukrainian command acts fast, 10,000 Kiev troops are about to be completely encircled.
We have been reporting on the battle for Pokrovsk, as you can read (from July) Russians Conquer a Dozen Settlements in a Week – In Eastern Donetsk, Northern Kharkov and Southern Zaporozhie – Moscow Forces Encircle Key Ukrainian Stronghold Pokrovsk (VIDEOS);
and SIEGE OF POKROVSK: Russian Forces Encircle Key Stronghold, Reach Its Outskirts – City is a Key Logistics Hub and the Last Fortified Bastion Before the Dnieper River (VIDEOS).
The Russian Tsentr (Center) group is leading the final assault for the key Pokrovsk-Mirnograd agglomeration.
Ukrainian forces are rapidly approaching a critical situation, and their defense has s become scattered.
Clearing operations are underway south of the railway.
Importantly, Pokrovsk is cut off from supplies. The E-50 highway to Pavlograd is under dense fire control by the Russians.
“Drone and mortar teams are no longer receiving their everyday supplies of drones, ammunition, and fuel. Gradually, the actual manpower and fire assets defending Pokrovsk from the inside were spread thinner and thinner.” – Kyiv Independent pic.twitter.com/EkNuyTYSyK
— Konstantinos (@KonstanVe) October 22, 2025
The ground troops failed to deliver the cargo to the positions and burned along with it. Drone operators destroyed enemy pickups and disrupted the enemy’s supply near Krasnoarmeysk. Precise strikes caused the ammunition in the vehicles to explode.
– ZN pic.twitter.com/AdI3BuIsam
— Zlatti71 (@Zlatti_71) September 27, 2025
Information in Telegram channels tellsabout the disorderly retreat of Kiev regime units from Pokrovsk amid the withdrawal from Rodinskoye.
The Russian army raised the flag in the center of the important city of Rodinskoye near Mirnograd!
In the Pokrovsk direction, fighters of the Storm detachment of the 9th brigade raised the Russian flag in the administrative building in the center of Rodinskoye.
Russian… pic.twitter.com/k6MsoB7IO9
— Zlatti71 (@Zlatti_71) October 26, 2025
Now, both General Gerasimov and President Vladimir Putin have weighed in on the battle of Pokrovsk.
BREAKING NEWS
The Russian army gave the terrorist Kiev regime militants stationed in Pokrovsk and Mirnograd 48 hours to surrender. If they do not surrender, they will be destroyed without taking any prisoners. pic.twitter.com/kWuftpQhXQ
— Aleksey Berezutski (@aleksbrz11) October 26, 2025
HUGELY IMPORTANT: Russia finished the encirclement of Pokrovsk and Kupyanks!
RUSSIA BLOCKED 31 UKRAINIAN BATTALIONS!
-> This is a war defining moment, which explaines the ceasefire hysteria!
The last time this happened, Merkel called and forced Putin into a Minsk… pic.twitter.com/kSJ8MeYRLA
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) October 26, 2025
After announcing the encirclement of Ukranian forces in Kupyansk and Pokrovsk Putin called to treat the POWs humanely.
He stated this at a meeting with Chief of the General Staff Gerasimov and other military leaders. pic.twitter.com/byY6OKAd5c
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) October 26, 2025
A lot of people compare the situation in Krasnoarmeysk to the siege of Bakhmut, the bloodiest urban battle since WW2.
Fighting is now ongoing for control of the northern sector of the city.
Ukraine is pulling back troops behind the railway, occasionally launching counterattacks.
The ring around Pokrovsk is tightening more and more…
Those who do not surrender are destroyed! pic.twitter.com/yWtKHJZWwK
— Z.O.V Military (@WarHunter2222) October 26, 2025
North of encirled Pokrovsk, Close to the Town of Mirnograd
An Entire column of Ukrainian armoured vehicles destroyed by advancing Russians
You won’t see this in the @Telegraph or @guardian or on the @BBC
Why? pic.twitter.com/8l8wLCAJw8
— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) October 23, 2025
Destruction of the temporary deployment point of the 155th Separate Marine Brigade of the Kiev forces.
Russian aviation carried out strikes with FAB bombs in the area of Krasnoarmeysk. pic.twitter.com/A22vUh2Yo1
— MD (@distant_earth83) October 23, 2025
Read more from August:
BATTLE FOR POKROVSK: Key Stronghold Surrounded by 3 Sides – Defenses in the South of the City Are Crumbling – To the North, Mining Town Rodinsky Is Under Attack (VIDEOS)
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